<p>This week I'm chatting with Daniel O'Rourke a member of the U.S. Foreign Service about the refugee ban, extreme vetting and the plight of refugees. This episode also includes a brief conversation with Anne Elliot who shares about her family's experience hosting a refugee family in her community.</p>

This week I'm chatting with Daniel O'Rourke a member of the U.S. Foreign Service about the refugee ban, extreme vetting and the plight of refugees. This episode also includes a brief conversation with Anne Elliot who shares about her family's experience hosting a refugee family in her community.

Episode 6: The Refugee Ban with Daniel O'Rourke

A Year of Listening Podcast is designed to reclaim the lost art of civil, compassionate, and nuanced conversation about a variety of polarizing topics.  In short, we’re tackling all the topics your mother warned you not to discuss at cocktail parties.  The goal of this show is to help people understand the very personal experiences that often guide our beliefs in the hopes that this expands our compassion and empathy for those who believe differently than us.  I have no doubt that in every episode a listener will hear something with which he wholeheartedly disagrees.  But, I also believe that if one keeps listening, he will also hear something with which he agrees.  It is my hope that the conversations in this podcast will give listeners opportunities to keep listening, to practice empathy and to widen the narrow holds we have on our own perspectives to make room for someone else’s.

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A Year of Listening Podcast is designed to reclaim the lost art of civil, compassionate, and nuanced conversation about a variety of polarizing topics. In short, we’re tackling all the topics your mother warned you not to discuss at cocktail parties. The goal of this show is to help people understand the very personal experiences that often guide our beliefs in the hopes that this expands our compassion and empathy for those who believe differently than us. I have no doubt that in every episode a listener will hear something with which he wholeheartedly disagrees. But, I also believe that if one keeps listening, he will also hear something with which he agrees. It is my hope that the conversations in this podcast will give listeners opportunities to keep listening, to practice empathy and to widen the narrow holds we have on our own perspectives to make room for someone else’s.

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Episode 6: The Refugee Ban with Daniel O'Rourke